On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

* 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — later renamed Community of Christ — is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois

* 1805 – Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter ( d. 1926 )

* 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

* 1860 – William Kennedy Dickson, France-Scottish actor, director, and inventor ( d. 1935 )

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1860 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American writer and public speaker ( d. 1941 )

* 1860 – Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States ( d. 1924 )

* 1860 – Jules Laforgue, French poet ( d. 1887 )

* 1860 – Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, England cricketer ( d. 1938 )

* 1860 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1907 )

" The Transubstantiation of a Poor White ", in Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward the History of the Part Which Black People Have Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 – 1880 ( 1935 ).

Unionism and Reconstruction in Tennessee, 1860 – 1869 ( 1934 ) online edition

* 1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, French wife of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden ( d. 1860 )

* 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.

* 1860 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter ( d. 1900 )

* 1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.

* 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

* 1860 – Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and inventor ( d. 1939 )

* 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

* 1860 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and composer ( d. 1936 )

* 1860 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician ( d. 1940 )

The Prince Alfred visited the island in 1860 en-route to Tristan Da Cunha.

* March 20 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist ( b. 1860 )

In 1860, Cameron visited the estate of poet Alfred Lord Tennyson on the Isle of Wight.

The William Alfred Moore house, built in 1860, is the earliest known structure still standing in Mount Airy.

# Alfred von Sonnenberg, Luzern ( 1860 – 1878 )

* Alfred Ploetz ( 1860 – 1940 )

On June 14, 1860, the board of directors of the fledgling company elected Alfred Hunt president.

After that period he held no public office, except that he was one of the presidential electors in the canvass of 1860, and by appointment of Governor William Alfred Buckingham was a delegate to the Peace Convention which met in Washington, in 1861, by request of the State of Virginia.

The rule then remained in place for almost the next hundred years, and often led to Democratic National Conventions which dragged on endlessly, most famously at the 1860 convention, when the convention adjourned in Charleston without making a choice and reconvening in separate groups a short time later, and the 1924 convention, when " Wets " and " Drys " deadlocked between preferred candidates Alfred E. Smith and William G. McAdoo for 103 ballots before finally agreeing on John W. Davis as a compromise candidate.

Prince Alfred, second son of Queen Victoria, began construction of the harbour in 1860.

In September 1860, Barney sold the house and grounds for 9, 000 pounds to George Alfred Lloyd.

Another of Pelouze's students was the young Alfred Nobel, who returned to the Nobel family's defunct armaments factory and began experimenting with the material around 1860 ; it did, indeed prove to be very difficult to discover how to handle it safely.

Alfred Belpaire Alfred Jules Belpaire ( 26 September 1820 – 27 January 1893 ) was a Belgian locomotive engineer who invented the square-topped Belpaire firebox in 1860.

Another contention, supported by an article by Alfred Duncan entitled " Paradise and the Maori " in the Lake Wakatip Mail in 1860, suggests that the area was named because of its beauty.

In 1860 the Bridgewater Trustees had opened the Alfred Dock, which was fitted with hydraulic cranes.

It was named by George Henry Richards, captain of HMS Plumper, circa 1860, in honor of William Alfred Rombulow Pearse of the Royal Navy, who had been commander of HMS Alert.

Per Alfred Petersson ( as a parliamentarian referred to as Alfred Petersson i Påboda, i. e. " in Påboda ", after his home farm, and often just " Påboda ") ( 25 June 1860 – 11 October 1920 ) was a Swedish politician and minister for agriculture in several cabinets.

In 1860 he went to Paris, where he studied with Charles Gleyre and Gustave Courbet, at roughly the same time as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley.

1860 ), which still ranks among the best expositions of modern German thought, has been twice translated into English, by Alfred Tulk ( London, 1854 ), and by Alfred Edersheim ( Edinburgh, 1854 ).

Henry Alfred Bishop ( December 4, 1860, Bridgeport, Connecticut – 1934 ) was superintendent and vice-president of several Eastern railroads, as well as other corporations.